My experience with Lemmy feels like my experience with Linux. I’m a nerd at heart and have played with a thousand variants of Linux over the decades. But as much as Linux is sold as the next Windows/MacOS, it never gets to that level. Trying to get people to understand the quirks of Linux (and why they are “better”) has been an act in futility. Linux just isn’t user-friendly, no matter the variant.

I see so many posts of people trying to understand what Lemmy is, what an instance is, why usernames are not unique (unless you include the server name - like email), etc. I just see it all as a huge hurdle to overcoming Reddit.

I’d be thrilled to be wrong.

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    1 year ago

    What you mean by user friendly? I am noob in Linux and Fedora , Ubuntu, Zorin OS , Linux Mint all of them were really easy to use and very user friendly.

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    1 year ago

    I’m with you. But hoping for a app to carry it all and a community that agrees on that servers should have what instances on it makes me want to push through.